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diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index bc7f046a1313..5c5c9c46fe92 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
* Copyright (C) 2023 Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
* Copyright (C) 2025 Microsoft Corporation, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
* Copyright (C) 2025 Google LLC, Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2025 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "KHO: " fmt
@@ -1117,6 +1118,92 @@ err_free_pages_array:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_restore_vmalloc);
+/**
+ * kho_alloc_preserve - Allocate, zero, and preserve memory.
+ * @size: The number of bytes to allocate.
+ *
+ * Allocates a physically contiguous block of zeroed pages that is large
+ * enough to hold @size bytes. The allocated memory is then registered with
+ * KHO for preservation across a kexec.
+ *
+ * Note: The actual allocated size will be rounded up to the nearest
+ * power-of-two page boundary.
+ *
+ * @return A virtual pointer to the allocated and preserved memory on success,
+ * or an ERR_PTR() encoded error on failure.
+ */
+void *kho_alloc_preserve(size_t size)
+{
+ struct folio *folio;
+ int order, ret;
+
+ if (!size)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+ order = get_order(size);
+ if (order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+ return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
+
+ folio = folio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
+ if (!folio)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ ret = kho_preserve_folio(folio);
+ if (ret) {
+ folio_put(folio);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }
+
+ return folio_address(folio);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_alloc_preserve);
+
+/**
+ * kho_unpreserve_free - Unpreserve and free memory.
+ * @mem: Pointer to the memory allocated by kho_alloc_preserve().
+ *
+ * Unregisters the memory from KHO preservation and frees the underlying
+ * pages back to the system. This function should be called to clean up
+ * memory allocated with kho_alloc_preserve().
+ */
+void kho_unpreserve_free(void *mem)
+{
+ struct folio *folio;
+
+ if (!mem)
+ return;
+
+ folio = virt_to_folio(mem);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(kho_unpreserve_folio(folio));
+ folio_put(folio);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_unpreserve_free);
+
+/**
+ * kho_restore_free - Restore and free memory after kexec.
+ * @mem: Pointer to the memory (in the new kernel's address space)
+ * that was allocated by the old kernel.
+ *
+ * This function is intended to be called in the new kernel (post-kexec)
+ * to take ownership of and free a memory region that was preserved by the
+ * old kernel using kho_alloc_preserve().
+ *
+ * It first restores the pages from KHO (using their physical address)
+ * and then frees the pages back to the new kernel's page allocator.
+ */
+void kho_restore_free(void *mem)
+{
+ struct folio *folio;
+
+ if (!mem)
+ return;
+
+ folio = kho_restore_folio(__pa(mem));
+ if (!WARN_ON(!folio))
+ folio_put(folio);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_restore_free);
+
static void __kho_abort(void)
{
if (kho_out.preserved_mem_map) {